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  • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
    Pandemic financial response ignored poor countries’ concerns, says Ghana minister

    Measures aggravated problems for many countries now struggling to service debts, says Ken Ofori-Atta

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Agricultural commodities
    Nestlé to pay cocoa farmers to stop using child labour

    Maker of Kit Kat to tackle root cause through direct payments to smallholders

  • Saturday, 24 July, 2021
    Enuma Okoro
    The life-long art of making friends

    At any age, to encounter someone new with whom you feel a genuine connection is an immeasurable gift

  • Saturday, 5 June, 2021
    FT SeriesInflation: a new era?
    Developing economies threatened by US inflation

    Investors demand higher bond yields, posing refinancing challenge for indebted countries

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    David Pilling
    Making chocolate can give Ghana a taste of prosperity

    Producing bars at home, rather than exporting raw cocoa, is one way to break neocolonial trading patterns

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    AMC butters up retail investors, Naomi Osaka and the media

    A wave of high-profile ransomware assaults over the past two months has convulsed the insurance market

  • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
    Travel
    How I fled London for a 1,000-mile trek across Ghana

    Stifled and lost in his city office, Robert Martineau flew to Accra and set out on foot for a remote desert shrine

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    David Pilling
    The man who helped make ordinary Africans’ voices heard

    Gyimah-Boadi’s Afrobarometer has worked to energise civil society and make the case for better government

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Ghana becomes first country to receive free Covax vaccines

    African officials complain of delay in delivery to other member states

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Orla Ryan
    Chocolate is a treat but leaves a sour taste in cocoa farmers’ mouths

    For families growing the crop in west Africa, the farmgate price is low and the life uncertain

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Agricultural commodities
    West Africa vs Big Chocolate: Battle over price sours relations

    Ivory Coast and Ghana struggle to boost farmer incomes from commodity that underpins $100bn industry

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    Ghana president Akufo-Addo wins second term but with smaller margin

    Parliamentary seats neck and neck in possible blow to ruling party’s prospects for easy four years

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    News in-depth
    Africa watches with envy at Ghana’s ‘boring’ presidential race

    Relative lack of violence or vote rigging marks contest out as rare example of democratic values

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    Agricultural commodities
    Africa’s cocoa farmers and Big Chocolate clash over poverty fighting measures

    Confectioners including Mars and Hershey accused of trying to circumvent ‘living income’ premium

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Commodities
    Hershey’s buys cocoa futures as tensions with African producers grow

    Premium charged for beans on physical market pushes buyers to futures market, driving rally

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    ObituaryJerry Rawlings
    Jerry Rawlings, a showman president of varied ideologies

    From violent beginnings, he helped secure Ghana’s middle income status and allowed democracy to take root

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    LexCommodities
    Ghanaian gold/Agyapa: Accra forfeits accruals Premium content

    Investors will be taking on sovereign risk, but the balance of risk seems to lie with the country

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    Commodities
    Ghana to push ahead with London royalty IPO

    Africa’s biggest gold-producing nation seeks to raise $500m from Agyapa listing

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Ken Ofori-Atta
    Ghanaian finance minister: Africa deserves more Covid help

    Continent has fared better health-wise than others, but its economies are suffering

  • Sunday, 9 August, 2020
    Paul Collier
    Pandemic threatens African economic success

    Fall in commodity prices benefits advanced economies

  • Thursday, 30 July, 2020
    News in-depthAgricultural commodities
    Choc waves: how coronavirus shook the cocoa market

    Commodity slumps amid the biggest quarterly decline in processing in six years

  • Sunday, 5 July, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    ‘We risk losing it all’: voices from the world’s poorest countries on the pandemic

    Virus pushes millions into hardship in economies which had sharply cut poverty

  • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
    Africa
    African business steps up in global scramble for virus test kits

    Ghana’s mPharma have helped countries shut out by suppliers to source vital equipment

  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
    Worker infects 533 others with coronavirus in Ghana fish factory

    Superspreader event accounts for 11 per cent of African country’s total infections

  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2020
    Energy sector
    Turkish energy producer caught up in Ghana bribery claims 

    Aksa Energy allegedly funnelled millions to officials in deal brokered by Goldman banker

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